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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
Personal Development

"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

"The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy."

"Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence."
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"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason."


"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."


"It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world."


"A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission."


"Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn."


"Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work."
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